Re: French and German (jara: An introduction)

Quoting Pavel Iosad <edricson@...>:

> Hello,
>
> > > Re infinitives, isn't that a feature of Swedish, only that
> > it's not at
> > > the end? I think Swedish can have a goodly string of infinitives
> as
> > > well, and I have a hell of a time trying to remember which one
> wants
> > > an
> > > 'att' and which doesn't.
> >
> > Probably mental block regarding one's L1, but I can't think
> > of any length
> > infinitive clusters in Swedish right now. Nothing worse than
> > _att hoppas kunna äta_, in any [c]ase.
>
> OK, there's _bruka_ which could go well here, and you could add a
> thing
> like _måste_ or whatnot. (has _bör_ a perfect? ;-))
That would be _har bort_, that's not a common form. Swedish modals tend to be
lacking certain forms, which brings us to _måste_, whose infinitive (_måsta_)
only exists in some northern dialects. For many people, _måste_ is the only
from of this verb (I have three; _måste_, _har måst_, _hade måst_).

But yes, _att bruka hoppas kunna äta_ works. That's four infinitives. _Att
böra bruka hoppas kunna äta_ is straining my Sprachgefühl, but I wouldn't say
it's ungrammatical.

> > The futurum perfectum can get pretty bad; _han kommer att ha
> > kunnat prova köra go-kart_.
>
> See? That’s' what I mean.
But that's only two infinitives.

                                                         Andreas